Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Ethnic Studies - General

The Western influence on the modernization of Japan is one of the most important subjects in Japanese Studies; indeed it is central to any understanding of today s Japan. The Western influence on the history of women in Japan is especially crucial since the women s movement there was founded on the translation of Western books into Japanese in the early Meiji era. During this period, along with the classical texts by authors such as J. S. Mill and Herbert Spencer, some of the minor books in the subject were also translated and published in Japanese. This set collects together some of those...

It is difficult, if not totally impossible, to define what we call Confucianism in terms of any of the disciplines we are used to in the West, and contemporary scholars tend to see it as a historical and yet living tradition containing elements of philosophy, religion, politics, morality, and education, continuing to hold significant power over the way and value of life in East Asia.

To some extent Confucianism can be broadly said to have started with the teaching of Confucius (551 479BC) who focused on how to restore moral and political order through education and ritual...

This set provides the very first collection of Yone Noguchi s works in English, including all of his books of poetry, novels, and literary essays.

Yonejiro Noguchi (1875 1947), known in the West as Yone Noguchi, was an influential writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He was the only Japanese author who published original literary works in English, and he gained a strong reputation in Western cultural society before the Second World War. Along with his active writings of literary works, which were collected in the first part of the...

After nearly three decades of rapid economic development, China is now a major power whose actions can significantly affect other countries, from America to Zimbabwe. As a result, China Studies has grown exponentially. In particular, there is a growing interest in studies of Chinese politics, not least because of the considerable uncertainties that remain over the country's future political direction.

This new Routledge title is a comprehensive collection of the best classic and cutting-edge scholarship. Volume I examines policy-making and policy implementation and includes analyses...

Asia: Critical Themes in Contemporary Security is new four volume collection featuring the key articles on the region published in "Survival," the International Institute for Strategic Studies bi-monthly journal, one of the world s leading forums for analysis and debate of international and strategic affairs.

Covering both East Asia and South Asia this is an ambitious and wide-ranging collection, covering a vast region of pivotal importance that continues to be a theatre for the power-plays of grand strategy. Articles by key and influential figures including, Coral Bell, Robert Scalpino...

Mini-set E: Sociology & Anthropology re-issues 10 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1995 and covers topics such as japanese whaling, marriage in japan, and the japanese health care system.

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Ernest Francisco Fenollosa: Published Writings in English is the very first collection of almost all of the writings of Ernest Fenollosa, Father of Japanese Art, published in his lifetime.To commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, 51 articles from journals, newspapers, pamphlets, exhibition catalogues, and booklets which the editor collected for many years are reprinted in facsimile, together with many plates (some in colour).The editor s detailed introduction (both in English and Japanese) includes a chronological record of Fenollosa s life, and his wife Mary s writings...

Published by Edition Synapse, Japan and distributed by Routledge outside of Japan.

This is the very first collection of all the English works produced by an author renowned for her autobiographical novel A Daughter of the Samurai, which became a bestseller in pre-war America. Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto was born 1874 in the province of Niigata in Japan and after attending a Methodist school in Tokyo, she moved to the USA for a pre-arranged marriage to a Japanese merchant in Cincinnati. After her husband s death, she started writing about Japan in local newspapers and then in a...

The Boy's Own Paper Vols. 1 4 (1879 82) is a facsimile reprint of the leading Victorian weekly for boys from the 1st to 194th issue covering 1879 to 1882. This facsimile is a complete reproduction with many illustrations (some in colour) in the original size.

Containing a mixture of factual articles about such things as history, science, religion, famous figures and topical social changes affecting the daily lives of girls and women, as well as short stories, serialized novels, and poetry.

The Boy's Own Paper Vols. 1 4 (1879 82) is an ideal companion to the reprint volumes of The...

This is the ninth part of the successful series supervised by Aiko Mabuchi, Director General, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, which provide art historians and students with the primary source materials related to the reception of Japanese arts from late nineteenth-century to early twentieth century in the Western societies. All materials are reproduced in facsimile reprint and include many plates and illustrations in colour.

This new collection includes writings by James Lord Bowes on Japanese arts. Bowes (1834 1899) was a wealthy Japanese art collector in...

The monumental Japanese fictional narrative known as The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) appeared during the first decade or so of the eleventh century, CE. This vast narrative--which spans three-quarters of a century, and is made up of fifty-four chapters and 795 poems--has been attributed to a woman known only as Murasaki Shikibu. It has often been celebrated as 'the world's oldest novel'.

The Tale of Genji has generated a huge scholarly literature, and this new collection, co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, meets the need for an authoritative reference work...